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When the 66th Cannes Film Festival opens Wednesday, it'll do so with a big bash of a movie, not in competition, already up and running in the U.S.: Baz Luhrmann's “The Great Gatsby,” based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's drunken revels up and down the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s remain the stuff of literary and liver-related legend. Since “Gatsby” has opened here already, the Cannes buzz among American cinephiles, journalists and critics, not to mention programmers, sellers, buyers and dreamers, has morphed into a nervous and rather unseemly refrain: Forget the film. I wonder if I can scam my way into what promises to be a pip of...

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When the 66th Cannes Film Festival opens Wednesday, it'll do so with a big bash of a movie, not in competition, already up and running in the U.S.: Baz Luhrmann's “The Great Gatsby,” based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald's drunken...

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